Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...spending, Democrats fired away. Republicans were "grabbing everywhere for an issue," growled House Speaker Sam Rayburn. It is "saddening," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, "that there are those who feel that they must take to the air waves because Congress is trying to work out some programs that will help people that need help. That is a peculiar motivation for panic." Congress, he rumbled, was not going to rubber-stamp "a program laid down by another branch of government...
...says Rayburn. "But a lot of folks don't have the money and can't do it." Rayburn, who rarely recounts personal stories unless they make a political point, was circulating that one last week-along with his word that Congress had better enact some program for federal aid to the ailing aged before it goes home in July...
...Ford Foundation's contribution will finance a team of Indian and foreign farm experts to take charge of the program, build teaching centers to train hundreds of additional agricultural specialists, and construct a network of seed-treatment and soil-testing stations. The government will expand local storage facilities, distribute fertilizer, insecticide and seed for sale to peasants, and create a farm-credit system to help farmers finance their own improvements. The scheme will operate along lines of U.S. soil-conservation projects; farmers who agree to improvement plans will get a package deal of soil testing, fertilization and planting that...
Johns Hopkins File (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). The program goes back to the peace and solitude of Walden for an envious visit to Henry David Thoreau...
...dark day for Douglas Aircraft's Donald Douglas Sr., who had to suffer through a 2½-hour meeting and shouts of "baloney" after announcing "an extremely disappointing" $6,949,002 loss for the quarter, due mostly to extra-heavy development expenses on the DC-8 jetliner program. At Columbia Broadcasting System, Chairman William S. Paley had an unruly meeting on his hands, with irate stockholders complaining over lower earnings (slightly less than 1959's 87? for the first quarter), the payola TV scandals and a handful of other problems. Said Chairman Paley: "We used to look forward...